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World: ESL students turn to essay writing services

custom essays are increasingly popular

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Essay writing is capable of turning your student years into a monotonous and challenging time of life. Custom Essay Order is an essay writing service that assists students in terms of decreasing the scholastic encumbrance. Students desire more than enough time to be engaged in supplementary activities other than course work. Except for opening [...]

Why use an essay writing service?

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To be able to get high-quality grades and keep away from humiliation and chastisement, students need to write non-plagiarized essays. Illegal use of another’s work is a fundamental academic crime and people can and will be harshly punished – to the extent of being thrown out of their academic institution.

Basically, if you’re a [...]

Rwanda: 900 English tutors are to train local teachers

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Rwanda & South Africa: The government, through the Teacher’s Service Commission, has selected 949 English tutors to train local primary and secondary school teachers how to appropriately conduct lessons in English.

Notes AllAfrica.com, The selection follows the Ministry of Education advertisement seeking 1000 teachers from neighbouring countries, after the country’s switch from French to [...]

Nigeria harnesses the power of ‘Pidgin English’

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Nigeria: Work has started to study and standardise a language spoken by millions but denied official status, raising hopes for education and communication across West Africa.

From the Guardian:

A source of news is Wazobia FM, the first radio station in Nigeria to broadcast in Pidgin and registering huge audiences as a result. [...]

Ireland: African pupils more likely to be bullied

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African children are more likely to be bullied at Irish schools than Eastern Europeans, a new report claims. According to the Irish Independent, ‘Adapting to Diversity: Irish Schools and Newcomer Students‘, compiled by the Economic and Social Research Institute, surveyed 1,200 primary and second-level schools across the country.

Most newcomers do not have [...]

Swaziland: Brigadier Fonono joins the siswati/English language debate

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For a number of years now, English has remained a passing subject and despite calls from certain sections of society for a review of this, things have remained unchanged, notes the Observer.

Retired Army Commander and cultural connoisseur Brigadier Fonono Dube said it was irrational that English remained a passing subject when siswati [...]

Uganda lays mother-tongue foundations

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Uganda: The first-language teaching policy highlights the rural-urban education divide, notes the Guardian. On a hot Friday afternoon at Katine primary school, in north-east Uganda, Santa Awiyo points her large wooden ruler at the blackboard as her year-three pupils chant the words she has written in white chalk. ” Idwe pore ngapo, igwen me [...]

Somali students share memoirs from Kenya to Lewiston

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Somalia and the United States: The crowd listened intently as the soft-spoken, sometimes shy writers took the stage to read excerpts from their new book, notes the Sun journal. They read poems praying for a better life, autobiographical accounts of the harsh reality of life in a refugee camp and stories about the hope [...]

Ethiopian streetkids turn to PCs in language challenge

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Ethiopia: In the shadow of Addis Ababa’s biggest Orthodox church, notes Reuters, more than 100 street children cluster around gazing as Amharic script flashes on computer screens before them. Ethiopia, one of Africa’s biggest and poorest countries, has more than 80 languages. Experts say a quarter of those are on the verge of extinction, [...]

MTN Moves to Stem Decline in Education Standard in Nigeria

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Nigeria: allAfrica reports that, in an effort to stem the declining standard of education in Nigeria, leading GSM provider, MTN, has introduced an interschool quiz competition, tagged MTN Smarter Brains Competition. The competition which will draw participants from junior secondary schools in Lagos and other parts of the country will focus primarily on their [...]

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